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Ed Weintrob's media blog • Helping Old Media folk transition to New Media and Social MediaFri, 19 Jul 2013 14:30:33 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.9Looking for sales help at The Jewish Starhttp://www.coneymedia.com/looking-for-sales-help-at-the-jewish-star/
http://www.coneymedia.com/looking-for-sales-help-at-the-jewish-star/#respondFri, 19 Jul 2013 14:29:03 +0000http://www.coneymedia.com/?p=6898The Jewish Star (where I’m the Publisher) is looking to add an advertising sales person to work in Long Island’s Five Towns. This is a great opportunity — part time or full-time.

Here’s the pitch:

The Jewish Star is expanding and has immediate openings for both F/T and P/T outside reps to sell advertising and marketing opportunities to businesses and institutions in and around the Five Towns.

Whether or not you’ve had a “sales” job, we’ll offer training and support to candidates who demonstrate sales ability and who care about their communities.

The Jewish Star does more than sell “space” in the newspaper (and online), we sell advertising and marketing campaigns that boost neighborhood businesses, support its institutions, and enhance the community.

The Jewish Star is a product you can be proud of, published by a well-established, family friendly company, that offers competitive compensation and benefits.

This job primarily involves working with accounts in the Five Towns. Use of a car, while desirable, is not essential.

I have not posted here since Thanksgiving, and that is a serious sin in Bloggerland.

I’ve been busy. Very busy. Happily busy. Yes, that’s my excuse.

Among other projects, I’ve been working on the successful relaunch of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s website (it’s up now, although the tweaking continues).

Of course, I’m in the market for new challenges — if you have one, let’s touch base. I’m happy to consider opportunities near and far (meaning they can be local to New York, or based in Iowa and beyond).

BTW, it’s not as though I’ve disappeared from Cyberville. I’ve been working the tweet streams pretty steadily — follow me on Twitter @ConeyMedia (for my media-centric spin) and @BrooklynToday (for local spin). Also on Facebook and (not quite as much) on LinkedIn.

The other day, The Brooklyn Paper ‘s first editor, Beverly Cheuvront, uploaded to Facebook the photo that tops this post, from around 1980; a more recent colleague, Eric Ross Tiplitz, quickly updated the image, replacing The Brooklyn Paper in my hand with an iPad. Ah, the joys of Photoshop.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

]]>http://www.coneymedia.com/on-veterans-day-we-remember-in-flanders-field-anthonyhutchcroft/feed/0Happy!http://www.coneymedia.com/happy-smile-through-tears-hurricane-irene-dancing-where-the-hell-is-matt/
http://www.coneymedia.com/happy-smile-through-tears-hurricane-irene-dancing-where-the-hell-is-matt/#respondSun, 11 Nov 2012 19:22:54 +0000http://www.coneymedia.com/?p=6809It’s been a rough couple of weeks for a whole lot of people in the New York area; right now, we could use something to smile about!

Which brings us to this “Where the Hell is Matt” dancing video, a guaranteed smile-maker—

After Matt Harding became a YouTube star in 2008, he went back around the world to continue dancing with people, releasing this 2012 edition—

For more about Matt and his dancing world, including how his videos began and evolved, click here.

]]>http://www.coneymedia.com/happy-smile-through-tears-hurricane-irene-dancing-where-the-hell-is-matt/feed/0Waterfront dining, anyone?http://www.coneymedia.com/waterfront-dining-anyone-as-hurricane-sandy-muck-floods-red-hook-brooklyn/
http://www.coneymedia.com/waterfront-dining-anyone-as-hurricane-sandy-muck-floods-red-hook-brooklyn/#respondTue, 30 Oct 2012 19:23:41 +0000http://www.coneymedia.com/?p=6753The giant Fairway supermarket in Red Hook is underwater — but that didn’t stop BrooklynPaper.com from accompanying its Day 2 Sandy coverage with an ad trumpeting the delights of al fresco dining on Fairway’s patio (which normally overlooks, but is not actually in, the water).

Not only couldn’t you dine outside Fairway this morning — you couldn’t get anywhere near the store!

Photo at right, which shows Fairway in far right background, is from Carroll Gardens Patch, which also posted many more great Red Hoot flood shots.

Below the art is an Associated Press report from BrooklynEagle.com on the Red Hook floods.

AP:

Residents in Red Hook who ignored the mandatory evacuation awoke to debris-strewn streets and a continuing blackout.

The floodwaters that rose at least 12 blocks inland had receded by dawn Tuesday.

It left cars strewn like leaves on the streets. Planters were deposited in intersections. Green metal Dumpsters were tossed on their sides.

Power lines were down.

Streets were covered with about 2 inches of muck and leaves.

The doors of the Fairway grocery store were blown out. Several cars left in the parking lot were shifted by flood waters overnight and were left crammed door to door.

Faye Schwartz and her husband rode out the storm in a third-floor apartment. She said white-capped flood waters reached at least three feet around the building.

Here’s another example of The Brooklyn Paper’s outstanding hyperlocal coverage of Hurricane Sandy: This was just posted in the newspaper’s liveblog—

A million bees living on the banks of the East River met a horrible end last night when Hurricane Sandy tore their hives apart.

The insects were part of a honey-making plan by the urban farmers at the Brooklyn Grange, who maintained 25 hives — each containing about 40,000 bees — on Pier K at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.But that waterfront location was right in the path of Sandy’s devastating storm surge.“All our hives that were out on the pier were destroyed,” said Chase Emmons, a managing partner and the chief beekeeper at Brooklyn Grange.

An additional 10 hives located on Brooklyn Grange’s rooftop farm survived — but the loss is catastrophic for the city’s largest apiary.

Emmons knew before the storm that the hives were at risk.

“There was little we could do without a Herculean effort,” he said.

What’s most heartbreaking, said Emmons, is that all of the lost hives were donated by a retired Pennsylvania beekeeper last year — so they housed extra-hearty bees with stellar genetics.

“The biggest loss is to our selective breeding genetic program. Our plan is to end up with bees that are well suited to the New York environment,” said Emmons. “This puts us back at least a year.”

But Emmons is confident that the Brooklyn Grange’s bee program will be up and running again next summer.

“Live and learn,” said Emmons, who noted that Brooklyn Grange workers will assess the equipment and see what they can salvage tomorrow. “You’ve got to come back stronger.”

]]>http://www.coneymedia.com/sandys-a-bee-killer-heartbreaking-tragedy-strikes-brooklyns-urban-farmers/feed/1Weathering the storm: NYC’s hyperlocal winners and losershttp://www.coneymedia.com/weathering-the-storm-nycs-hyperlocal-winners-and-losers-hurricane-sandy/
http://www.coneymedia.com/weathering-the-storm-nycs-hyperlocal-winners-and-losers-hurricane-sandy/#commentsTue, 30 Oct 2012 15:43:21 +0000http://www.coneymedia.com/?p=6713There are two ways of approaching a story like Sandy: Go whole hog or stay home.

With all the talk about hyperlocal imperatives, the most local of New York’s traditional media mostly slept through one of the city’s greatest stories.

But with one exception among local newspapers and at least two among pure plays, the hyperlocals didn’t even bother to phone it in.

• • •

When a resident or expat of the Rockaways — among the areas hardest hit by the storm, where a mid-flood blaze engulfed more than 50 homes — turned to Rockawave.com, the payroll-protected website of the 129-year-old Wave newspaper, they might have expected at least SOME coverage. They’d have been disappointed. What the Wave delivered: Nada.

In Brooklyn, kudos to BrooklynPaper.com for liveblogging the storm throughout Monday, and continuing on Tuesday. Excellent job!

The Brooklyn Paper’s sister site, BrooklynDaily.com, mirrored Brooklyn Paper coverage on Monday — but on Tuesday morning it was leading with a high school sports event from last Saturday. Its shoreline neighborhoods were the wrost hit in Brooklyn. Insensitive at best.

Except for an early post by its star reporter Mary Frost, BrooklynEagle.com took Monday off. On Tuesday morning, the site posted a brief update by Frost and an Associated Press report on the fire in Breezy Point.

Brooklyn’s Patch sites were generally lame and not worth a click, but DNAinfo.com — the 800-pound guerrilla in the room — proved what a hyperlocal site can do when it has unlimited financial resources [ie, editorial and technical staff]. Meanwhile, Ned Berke’s SheepsheadBites.com showed what Brooklyn moxie can do on the hyperlocal front even without a whole lot of money. Congrats, Ned.

]]>http://www.coneymedia.com/the-moral-paper-route-case-for-free-enterprise/feed/0Racist headline tops NY Daily News websitehttp://www.coneymedia.com/racist-headline-tops-ny-daily-news-website-jehovahs-witness-sex-assault-killer/
http://www.coneymedia.com/racist-headline-tops-ny-daily-news-website-jehovahs-witness-sex-assault-killer/#respondTue, 23 Oct 2012 22:20:01 +0000http://www.coneymedia.com/?p=6669If an editor had substituted “Jew” or “Black” or “Arab” or “Irish” or “Italian” or whatever … would this homepage topper pass muster at the New York Daily News? —

Unlike this SEO‘d homepage teaser, the story itself does not include “Jehovah’s Witness” in its headline; the term comes up only briefly mid-article — at which point the newspaper reports that the “Kingdom Hall in Gresham [Oregon] described him as an ‘irregular’ church-goer” [emphasis added].

The suspect is also reported to have cared for cats [HEADLINE: Cat lover sexually assaults and pumps bullets into a Starbucks barista] and he’s said to have been employed at Burger King [HEADLINE: Burger King worker has it his way with Starbucks barista, then pumps her with lead].

Daily News Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, hang your head in shame! It’s no wonder that when Zuckerman, who’s a regular on the Sunday TV talk show circuit, is introduced, it’s as publisher of U.S. News — a magazine that barely exists — rather than as publisher of the still fairly large-circulation New York Daily News.

Meanwhile, the Daily News‘ website, under Zuckerman’s ailing eye, is all alone in its race to the bottom. Yuch!